I am trying to find a specific file in a specific directory and then i need to get the full path of the file.Is this possible i cant find any help topics about a specific file.
View 5 RepliesI need some advise how to get a specific file from a directory?for example i want to take all file that have name like "vid" from directory name "film" and in the directory,there are files like "vid12","vid232" how to get all file that have the word vid?
View 1 RepliesAt the moment I am using this:
Dim Open As New OpenFileDialog
Open.ShowDialog()
TextBox2.Text = Open.FileName
But that only allows me to open specific files. Can I make it so I can open a folder?
Am writing a windows app using vb.net 2005. The app captures a string variable from the user. As each file within a directory is read, I want to match the stored string within each file. If I find a match to the string, I want a list box to be populated with the name of the file. I have added Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions and tried using the match collection.
For example: My direcotry has 5 text files. I want to match a string "PARENT" in the text of all these 5 files. The list box should output the name of each file where the string was found.
what is probably a very stupid and basic question, I'm new to Visual Basic I currently coding a program which deletes specific files that are part of a game. It finds and deletes all the files in the "program files" directorys but there are also certain files in My Documents that must be deleted.
The problem is the filepath to My Documents includes a username which is unique to different users, meaning on any other pc the program will not work.
The path on my computer is: C:UsersShaneDocumentsElectronic Arts
How can I get the program to find this folder on other computers? I'm totally lost.
I wonder if it is possible to find a specific row and specific columns in data base file (Access) . You see , I am using a DataGridView control to show only SOME of the columns (fields) of a table from an Access file . For example , lets say that in the DataGridView control I only show the following fields :Field1 , Field2 and Field3 .Now , when the user selects an entry in the DataGridView control , I want to insert the text from Field4 into a text box on the form .
The problem , however , is that I don't know how to get the specific row in the data base file and also I don't know how to get the text in column (field) Field4 of that row .One thing that might be important is that the index of the row in the data base file is not necessarily the same with the index of the current row in the DataGridView control . This is because in the DataGridView control the rows are order by the contents in the ID Field .ol .
i am a beginner in vb8 i have a text file named alarm.txt,sample alarm.txt file is shown below
can someone help me to read the alarm.txt file and extract data.for eg
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I'm developing a program to tweak the settings of the Thief: Deadly Shadows video game.The tweaker program is designed to load and configuration profiles so the ttlg/T3Ed Guild community can share tweaks with each other and then apply those setting to the game's ini files. A little more info here: [ame=http:ur]UNDER DEVELOPMENT - Thief 3 Gold Tweaker -l.... TTLG Forums[/ame] & here are a list of tweaks the tweaker program will apply to the game: [ame=http:[url].....
Anyway, I managed to load and save the config profiles but I'm stuck on applying those settings to the game's .ini files. The main problem is finding the right string. Thief: Deadly Shadows .ini file has settings for xbox & PC. I only want to change the PC settings in DEFAULT.INI:
[XboxStartup]
ShowIntroMovies=True
ForceCopyFromHardDrive=False
ShortIntroMovies=d:content 3VideoTextureseidos-logo.bik; . . . etc.
GameStartFiles=d:MediaFont12.xpr, . . . etc.[code]....
I want to change "ShowIntroMovies=False" under the "[PCStartup]" section when the user clicks "Apply Changes" on the main form.One way I could go about this is to look for "[PCStartup]" hold the line number it's on, then look for the "ShowIntroMovies" string under that line number. There are several instances in the game's .ini files where the same setting exists but they exists under different sections. So how would I find a specific occurrence of a string?
I have a program that will read a text file and put information from the text file into multiple text boxes. What I am trying to do now is be able to change the values in the textboxes and be able to write the specifc changes back to the text file. One way I though of doing that was using a while loop and copy the lines of the text file to another text file, then when it finds the line that has the specific change from the text box, make the change and continue writing the line until it reaches the end of the file. Then I was going to copy the file and overwrite the original, escientally making the change to the new file. Right now it will make the new file but will just make a blank text file. I think the problem is in the while loop statement but I am not sure. Here is the code below:
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Private Sub submitButton_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles submitButton.Click
Dim trackname As String
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I am using visual basic express edition 2008.How can I search for a word in a file then store that word?Also, how can I search for a Phrase in a file or a Textbox and store it in a different place?
View 4 RepliesWhat is the best and fastest way to find the exact location(Drive/Folder) of a specific file, without scanning the whole drive. Right now, I am using those two instructions to locate EXCEL.EXE so I can properly call it with a shell command.[code]It is quite a long process, and I have to deal with some access denied folder like System Volume Information. I am quite new to VB programming.
View 3 Repliesi'm trying to make a program that searches for a specific file in a specific file, so when the program loads it "writes" in checked list box the names of the drives installed to the computer, but what i want to do is: when the user checks the box, i want it to search for the file in that drive, but i don't know how to do it...
I'm using:
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Collections.ObjectModel
Public Class Form1
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how to make it search in the other drives using the checked listbox?
In vb.net how do you check if a ANY directory exists inside a directory I would need to know if there is a folder inside the c:windows directory (WITHOUT knowing if there is ANY directory is in there).
View 4 Repliesi have here a code that allows me to draw on a picturebox, but my problem is i want it to save on a specific directory for example: "C:image". how can i do this?[code..]
View 6 Replieshow to count the content of a specific directory?And how do you delete an old file (ex. say your old program that create a back-up. But it has already created many back-ups and now it takes to much of the space in your hardisk.)
View 3 RepliesI am trying to copy a directory structure and .txt files to a duplicate directory in a different location.
Example:
Source Location: \MyServerProjectsProjectA
This directory will contain .txt files in the following locations that will vary from project to project. So the locations would be unknown going in.
\MyServerProjectsProjectAdocsallfiles.txt
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I am trying to get the savefiledialog (when it opens) to open under the following directory:
C:Garman SoftwareThe Bible Study ToolAnnotations
I set the InitialDirectory property to this in the properties settings and also in code....but the damn thing keeps opening up in MyDocuments.I am using VS2008 (VB)
I use Visual studio 2008 I use MYSQL 5.1 I want only to backup database Test to to a specific directory.I use the application settings to determine which directory(see attachment).Green shaded code works perfect.
Red shaded code works not!! This is with My.settings.I can not see the error code, it goes too fast, I can not capture this with:
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how to count the content of a specific directory?And how do you delete an old file (ex. say your old program that create a back-up. But it has already created many back-ups and now it takes to much of the space in your hardisk.)
View 1 RepliesHow can I combine multiple *.txt files in a specific directory into one txt file in another directory using VB.NET? (And to delete blank lines at the end of the new file)
I know how to do it in vbscript:
Const ForReading = 1
Const ForWriting = 2
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objOutputFile = objFSO.CreateTextFile("C:logsimportoutput.txt")
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Is there any way of being able to read the structure of a specific directory in tree view. [code]
View 2 RepliesFor Each foundFile As String In My.Computer.FileSystem.GetFiles("C:Documents and Settings oeDesktopMy Music2", _
FileIO.SearchOption.SearchAllSubDirectories, "*.mp3")
My.Computer.FileSystem.CopyFile(foundFile, "C:Documents and Settings oeMy DocumentsMy Music" & foundFile)
Next
Error message is on the third line:
The given files path's format is not supported.
I have tried all variations to this without any luck.
I have search system that works like charm: 1> Searches specific folder for text files which contain specific word 2> Puts those text file names and/or paths to listbox However i want it to put (instead of InputStr) the specific line where word is found in text file to listbox.
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The below picture is generated by the following code:
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Form1_Paint(ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.PaintEventArgs) Handles Me .Paint
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What I want to do is when I click on each grid on the form (Touch Screen), a tooltip of some stored information about the grid appears on screen. For example, if I click my mouse on square 6,8 then some stored information such as grid number, grid name, level...etc appears on the tooltip on the screen.
I'm simply trying to create a small tool, to create a username / password / OU group, and a few properties on a new user from a form with a few text boxes, and a button.I know how to connect to LDAP, though i'm having a problem getting this done.
View 3 RepliesI want to get a list of all users and groups that belong to a specific department (entered by the user) from Active Directory using VB.Net and DirectoryServices.
View 2 RepliesI have a little question about txt-files...This is the case: I am going to make a small software for editing particular parts in text files, so you don't have to do it by hand. In this program, i need to find several words in a text file and retrieve the text or number that is after the the "="-sign, and then replace that info. Then, I want to use the information it retrieves to add some text in the end of the file.
P.S. There are 36 differet words to search for, and some of them will occur in several places, so i want the data from those words that occur several times in an array. And the data i want to retrieve is AFTER the searchword and a "=", so i dont want the searchword or the equals-sign included. Can someone explain to me how to do this?
Is it possible that after you find a string, backup until you find a specific character and copy it?For example, I am looking for "bread". The text is milk8andbread. Would it be possible to start at bread, back up until eight, and just copy "andbread"?
View 4 Repliesif there was a bad virus on my computer and I wanted to make sure that every time that the Application tried to run, I would Kill That Process? Something that Might Look like this, but Idk..
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
Timer1.Interval = 1000
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Something that looks like that, yesterday I got the code on how to Kill a process by name, today I would like to learn how to ask the computer if that process is running, and if it is, Kill It.
I have a VBS script that allows me to do a recursive search through a specific registry key to find a key value in multiple of the key directories. And unfortunately it dosn't want to work properly with vb.net in my visual studio even when i try to make the syntax changes
just look through the HKLM\MICROSOFT key to search for any occurences of "DigitalProductID"
Const numRoot = &H80000002
Const strRoot = "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE"
Const myRoot = "SOFTWARE\Microsoft"
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